The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his… — William James Copy Share Image
Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank,… — Saeb Erekat Copy Share Image
If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the… — Leon Pinsker Copy Share Image
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“when civilization began, the gods who were worshipped—the focus of the act of being "religious"—were none other than the Anunnaki/Nefilim, who were… — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven"… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of;… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover… — Alan Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of… — Casey Hudson Copy Share Image
The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important… — Elisabet Sahtouris Copy Share Image
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization…The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other,… — H. Allen Smith Copy Share Image
“And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a horizon which we can approach, while barbarity is a background from which we seek to move away; neither condition… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement;… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
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